Even so its true there too. Just use postgres with monolith, monorepo on a single VM (yes!) until you need more. Do have DR of course and security posture from day 1.
Feel the pain badly that microservices or aurora or k8s solve before using them!
Also pets not cattle. A $100/m hetzner dedi with a CDN on top is probably a tardis for most startups and can scale you up to a lot of traffic. With a setup like that yes you can install the Web server and the database on the same damn machine, and find it ridiculously overprovisioned while costing less than your incorporation.
Feel the pain badly that microservices or aurora or k8s solve before using them!
Also pets not cattle. A $100/m hetzner dedi with a CDN on top is probably a tardis for most startups and can scale you up to a lot of traffic. With a setup like that yes you can install the Web server and the database on the same damn machine, and find it ridiculously overprovisioned while costing less than your incorporation.